The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-11-03

Economy and industry are the
only effective poverty re,nedtes. !"
Chorus sung by Shylock and all his
imitators and sycophants every
where.)
The man who has family Of four
or Ave to support and whose
wages average less than q
dollar q day is compelled to be indus
trio4s to feed and clothe them and
his extravaganza il confined to the
patches on his apparel.
II Industry and economy Is tbs
high way to riches, he ought to get
there. And the men who were held
in bondage in the south ought to
have been millionaires because they
were tbs very pattern Of industry,
and as for econcsAy. why bless your
soul, Mr.. Shylock, vast ,HAiorlty Of
them never spent a farthing for any
purpose. And the only difference In
their condition and that of the ordin-
ary laboring man ~ss. the slave had
q legally recognized master who was
compelled to care for him while the
ordinary labortng man relies upon his
own industry and the poor house as
bis place Of refuge.
Shylock manages to have legislat-
ors and public officers In the various
states who will nearly exempt his
property from taxation as in the case
OF the railroads IN iowa and the gov
eminent bonds held by hin while the
comparatively poor man on q sascsta-
aged farm is compelled to pay the
expenses Of the state and provide for
those whom Shylock has sent over
the hill to the poor house.
Your pious Shylock becomes indig-
nant at the idea Of any ones being
antagonistic to poverty which he
deems a Divine dispensation and Of
course he ms an instrument of Provi-
dence, has provided to make it as
nearly universal as possible. The
cage economists who say that ''econ-
omy and industry are the only effect
i've anti-povsrty remedies" no doubt
think in this utterance they have
settled the question. But poverty is
here still and more often in company
with economy and industry than
elsewhere.
The masses OF the workers of this
country are industrious; which is
demonstrated by the rapid
increase of the wealth of the
country produced by their Ia
Dor; they are economical, as is proven
by their surroundings and mode Of
life and yet they are poor, indeed
their poverty often makes them OBJ
jects of pity.
Reasonable industry and rational
economy are indispensable to hon
est competency and proper life,
and did no dishonesty or rapacity
exist they Of themselves would be
sufficient to secure reasonable conn.,
potency. To put the matter as it is,
il honest toll were permitted to en-
joy the fruits of it's own efforts. it
would very coon demonstrate that
poverty is not . Divine dispensation.
Vicious laws and unjust systems,
transfer q large share of the wealth
produced from those who have Great
ed it to the Golfers Of the privileged
classes. Industry and economy
while these unjust systems are per-
united to exist will never extirpate
poverty,
For centuries economy and indus
Try" have struggled With poverty, in
the old world and the contest
through the vicious legislation OF the
last twenty years has been transferr-
ed to this continent.
The "wise men, who say that Leg
has nothing to do with the
existing poverty OF the toilers. might
wisely consider what the effect
would be II taxation was transferred
from lnortgaged farms to the mortg-
ages. If railroads were compelled to
the products of the coun-
try ut only just remuneration: if
they had to bear just proportion OF
the burdens Of taxation; If the GOV
eminent was furnishing the toilers
with money ut the same rates and
upon the same terus it supplies the